Re: [PATCH] selftests/bpf: Fix conflicts with built-in functions in bpf_iter_ksym

From: Andrii Nakryiko
Date: Sat Aug 27 2022 - 00:56:08 EST


On Thu, Aug 25, 2022 at 6:26 PM James Hilliard
<james.hilliard1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Both tolower and toupper are built in c functions, we should not

Really? How come? Can you point out where this is specified in C
standard? From what I can tell you have to include <ctype.h> to get
toupper()/tolower().

This seems like yet another GCC-BPF quirk?

> redefine them as this can result in a build error.
>
> Fixes the following errors:
> progs/bpf_iter_ksym.c:10:20: error: conflicting types for built-in function 'tolower'; expected 'int(int)' [-Werror=builtin-declaration-mismatch]
> 10 | static inline char tolower(char c)
> | ^~~~~~~
> progs/bpf_iter_ksym.c:5:1: note: 'tolower' is declared in header '<ctype.h>'
> 4 | #include <bpf/bpf_helpers.h>
> +++ |+#include <ctype.h>
> 5 |
> progs/bpf_iter_ksym.c:17:20: error: conflicting types for built-in function 'toupper'; expected 'int(int)' [-Werror=builtin-declaration-mismatch]
> 17 | static inline char toupper(char c)
> | ^~~~~~~
> progs/bpf_iter_ksym.c:17:20: note: 'toupper' is declared in header '<ctype.h>'
>
> Signed-off-by: James Hilliard <james.hilliard1@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/bpf_iter_ksym.c | 6 +++---
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/bpf_iter_ksym.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/bpf_iter_ksym.c
> index 285c008cbf9c..9ba14c37bbcc 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/bpf_iter_ksym.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/bpf_iter_ksym.c
> @@ -7,14 +7,14 @@ char _license[] SEC("license") = "GPL";
>
> unsigned long last_sym_value = 0;
>
> -static inline char tolower(char c)
> +static inline char to_lower(char c)
> {
> if (c >= 'A' && c <= 'Z')
> c += ('a' - 'A');
> return c;
> }
>
> -static inline char toupper(char c)
> +static inline char to_upper(char c)
> {
> if (c >= 'a' && c <= 'z')
> c -= ('a' - 'A');
> @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ int dump_ksym(struct bpf_iter__ksym *ctx)
> type = iter->type;
>
> if (iter->module_name[0]) {
> - type = iter->exported ? toupper(type) : tolower(type);
> + type = iter->exported ? to_upper(type) : to_lower(type);
> BPF_SEQ_PRINTF(seq, "0x%llx %c %s [ %s ] ",
> value, type, iter->name, iter->module_name);
> } else {
> --
> 2.34.1
>